General Information

The Salkom Law Firm is one of the top law firms in Ukraine that specialises in providing complex and comprehensive legal advice and assistance to a diverse range of business clients. The Firm’s lawyers have received thorough and comprehensive training and enjoy extensive expertise in various areas of law, and the Firm’s consultants and experts include renowned Ukrainian and foreign lawyers. Salkom’s employees are fluent in foreign languages and this allows them to communicate easily and effectively with international clients.

Antitrust Law

Banking and Finance

The Firm’s banking and finance practice provides full range of services in the area of banking law, finance law and currency exchange regulations. Our lawyers advise banks and financial institutions and their clients.

Consulting

Highly qualified specialists of Salkom-Service have a wealth of experience in providing advice on the matters of company formation and management, perform objective analysis of a company’s strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, and suggests innovative solutions for optimising the efficiency of management, technology and business.

Contract Law

Corporate Law. М&A

The Salkom Law Firm has many years’ worth of experience in providing complete and feasible solutions to large and medium sized businesses both in Ukraine and abroad. The Firm’s Corporate law and M&A practice is known for its expertise in advising on complex, comprehensive and innovative M&A transactions.

Energy and Natural Resources

Intellectual Property

The Salkom Law Firm’s Intellectual Property practice deals with the creation, acquisition, protection, development and exploitation of copyrights, trademarks, design rights and websites. We also undertake trademark registration and patent litigation.

Labour and Employment

The Salkom Law Firm has a broad range of experience in providing advice on various matters of employment law, including collective bargaining agreements, service contracts for a company’s management, personnel reduction issues, and also undertakes employment litigation.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

For more than 20 years the Salkom Law Firm has been justly considered to be second to none in the area of litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution. The Firm’s lawyers act for clients in all courts in Ukraine, from courts of local jurisdiction and up to the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and abroad, including international commercial arbitration. The Firm’s expertise covers all forms and stages of dispute resolution, ranging from dialogue and negotiations through mediation to arbitration and court proceedings.

Real Estate and Construction

The Firm’s Real Estate practice advises on the acquisition and disposal of real estate, drafts all types of contracts and agreements with real property, including leases and property management agreements; we also focus of construction matters and handle complex transactions with land that entail financial and taxation aspects. The Firm has a renowned litigation practice in real estate.

Securities and Capital Markets

The Firm advises clients on the matters related to the issuance and circulation of various kinds of securities, share sale and purchase contracts, listings on Ukrainian stock exchanges, using securities as an instrument for fund raising. Our lawyers provide issuers of securities with assistance in compliance with fund market regulations.

Tax and Customs Law

The Firm provides advice on a broad spectrum of taxation matters, including those that arise during import/export transactions, real property conveyancing, and in M&A deals. We also act for our clients before tax authorities and defend cases in court.

What we do

The Firm’s lawyers provide a full spectrum of legal services to a broad range of businesses engaged in various industries. Our lawyers have been trained in multiple disciplines so they can develop innovative solutions to complex legal problems and provide top-quality services tailored to the specific needs of the client.

News

Publications

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

For more than 20 years the Salkom Law Firm has been justly considered to be second to none in the area of litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution. The Firm’s lawyers act for clients in all courts in Ukraine, from courts of local jurisdiction and up to the Supreme Court of Ukraine, and abroad, including international commercial arbitration. The Firm’s expertise covers all forms and stages of dispute resolution, ranging from dialogue and negotiations through mediation to arbitration and court proceedings. The Firm heavily relies on the procedural rules and international case law to ensure the best protection and defence to the client’s rights and interests.

The lawyers with the Firm act for clients in all sorts of disputes, including disputes over property or personal rights, labour disputes, product liability, consumer rights protection, tax matters, IP and patent litigation. Our litigation cases come from various industries.

The Firm has vast experience in acting for clients in complex litigations comprising multiple cases that are being simultaneously considered by various courts, being both lower courts and appellate courts, and requiring excellent expertise in both procedural and substantive law.

We also help clients enforce awards and decisions made by court. The Firm has a wealth of experience in enforcing awards made by Ukrainian courts in foreign jurisdictions and in enforcing in Ukraine awards made by foreign courts and international commercial arbitration courts.

International litigation and arbitration

The Firm has acted for its clients in courts in foreign jurisdictions, in international commercial arbitration court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine (Kiev), in international commercial arbitration courts in Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, London, Moscow; in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) (Washington, the USA), European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, France), the UN Human Rights Committee (Geneva, Switzerland), and in other international government and non-government organisations.

The Firm’s lawyers are on the list as arbitrators in various international arbitration institutions, they are renowned experts whose services are regularly requested by parties to various commercial disputes.

The Firm’s litigation and dispute resolution practice team offers the following services and assistance:

preliminary analysis of case files to assess prospects of litigation in courts of general jurisdiction and in specialised courts;

preparing expert opinions on the risks and prospects of litigating cases in forums in foreign jurisdictions, international judicial institutions, and government and non-government organisations;

offering a full range of litigation services including drafting statements of claim, statements of defence, pleadings and motions of all descriptions, etc.

defending cases in court and participating in out-of-court settlement of disputes;

appealing against court decisions and awards;

enforcement of decisions and awards made by foreign courts;

translating case materials into foreign languages.

The Firm also provides advice on matters of European Union Law and law of other countries.

Legal services for private clients

The Firm advises high net worth individuals on the wide spectrum of matters, including:

family law: dissolution of the marriage and severance of property owned by spouses as joint tenants, the custody and place of residence of children, the maintenance of spouses and children of the family, annulment of the marriage, etc.

the law of succession: wills and legacies, probate and letters of administration, services of administrators, revocations, etc.

housing law: disputes concerning rights to use housings and dwellings, rights of way and other rights, relations between co-tenants, contesting titles to dwellings, etc.